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Texas lawmakers are considering a bill that would add two dozen medical conditions to the list of ailments approved for treatment under the state’s medical cannabis program. With some of the most restrictive medical cannabis laws in the nation weighing on the backs of Texas patients and families, State Senator José Menéndez (D) filed Senate Bill 269…

History is full of little statements that explode into larger drama — from momentous political speeches to that time you didn’t sufficiently compliment your grandma’s kugel at Passover. Steve Kerr, head coach for the Golden State Warriors, is the latest name to join the list of unintentional fire starters. Last week, in a podcast interview with…

Arizona’s medical marijuana market could hit $681 million in sales by 2020, but the state’s share of the overall U.S. legal cannabis market likely will peak next year, new market research data show. The latest report from cannabis market research firms New Frontier Data and The Arcview Group comes nearly a month after Arizona voters…

Florida’s size and large percentage of elderly residents could vault the state to the second-largest U.S. medical cannabis market by 2020, a new report shows. By 2020, Florida could be tallying $1.6 billion in medical marijuana sales — and have a 7.5 percent share of the overall U.S. legal cannabis market and a 14 percent…

Warriors coach Steve Kerr said on a CSN Bay Area podcast published Friday that he used marijuana for back pain he experienced the past two years. “I guess maybe I could even get in some trouble for this, but I’ve actually tried [marijuana] twice during the last year and a half when I’ve been going…

It’s estimated that legalized recreational marijuana in California will deliver $1 billion in sales tax revenues annually to the state. Some of the target sources for the funds include research on the impacts on legalization, the development of roadside protocols to determine marijuana impairment, drug use prevention and treatment, programs for at-risk youth, law enforcement…

This bud’s a potential downer for beer. A research note published this week from Cowen & Company financial analysts suggests that beer volume sales in the legal recreational cannabis states of Colorado, Oregon and Washington are under-performing the overall U.S. beer market by 2.6 percentage points year-to-date. “In adult-use cannabis markets, there are clear signs…

Scotts Miracle-Gro is now the majority owner of Boulder’s AeroGrow International Inc., the indoor gardening products company that was Scotts’ first foray into hydroponics. AeroGrow this week announced that Scotts subsidiary SMG Growing Media Inc. upped its ownership stake in the Boulder firm to 80 percent after it exercised the entirety of its outstanding warrants…

Safe access advocates in Washington, D.C. took their pro-cannabis message directly to controversial Attorney General appointee, Senator Jeff Sessions, urging him to reconsider his controversial statement that “good people don’t smoke marijuana and to refrain from cracking down on state-legal cannabis. But will their efforts be enough to change the will-be AG’s mind, and is there…

The federal government strictly limits cannabis researchers, requiring them to conduct all studies using material from a single approved cultivator. But with a maximum potency of roughly 10-percent THC — and zero availability of concentrates or refined cannabinoids — that material bears little resemblance to the cannabis products available for purchase in medical and adult use…

Canopy Growth Corp., the largest company in Canada’s rapidly developing marijuana industry, agreed to buy competitor Mettrum Health Corp. for about C$430 million ($321 million) to expand production as the government moves toward legalization. The all-stock deal values Mettrum at C$8.42 a share, the companies said Thursday in a statement, representing a 42 percent premium…